Baby Steps 'Til Complete Addiction

After being converted to digital, it took me a while to reconect with analogue. But after it started…

About one year ago a German boy arrived at my boyfriend’s house. And despite many cultural differences and communication problems there was one bizarre thing: he still used FILMS to photograph! “Come on, you might have the best digitals, with affordable prices back home! Why Film?”And he answered: “because it’s more fun, the colors are better, etc.”

A few weeks later my boyfriend bought an analogue camera and decided that in our trip to Europe he was going to practice a “comeback” to analogue. Once again, there was I, “Come on… buy a digital…” And he had the same arguments of this German friend.

About six monthes later someone wakes me up with the Lomography Online Shop on their laptop telling me that once again my next trip to Europe was gonna be shot by those cameras. But now, I was more open to the idea and decided that I had to get some of those fun cameras for my self!

By far the oddest-looking camera I own, the Electric Eye is an auto-exposure viewfinder camera made by Bell & Howell in the late 1950s. I picked one up online and ended up with another one, that came with a very cool, retro looking carrying case, from my grandfather. It took a little while to try these two out but after running some film I found that this camera is a lot of fun to shoot with.

She took her first photo a while back not knowing that it will change her life forever. Her photographs are mysterious and beautiful, someone would even say with a touch of darkness, but she also enjoys playing with light.

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